I have been trying to find support for a Vaio a friend has. He started getting a system disk error at boot. He tried to recover and it would go through the morions and again system disk error! He brought it to me and I did the same. Finnally got it to reconize the hard drive and then during recovery CD1 got a new error! (unknown error) Thinking maybe some of the XP files on the image got dinged I installed XP Pro. The drivers for the chipset, the modem, sound and USB are not found. Tried seaching for drivers on recovery disks and Sony web-site. Can't find anything. This is the only place I have found so far that has threads for these computers.
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